Magic School For Adults

A Kiss. A Curse. An Obsession. Genevieve Castle spends her time compiling playlists, writing down the music in her head, and trying oh-so-hard not to think about the quarterback, her long-time obsession. When a gorgeous foreign exchange student moves into town, staying with the inhumanly-hot captain of the swim team, will she manage to move onto something better, or will a kiss of obsession drag her into a world more dark and dangerous than anything she imagined? Welcome to the world of Watergirl: hot guys with gills, psychotic ex-girlfriends, oh, and something in the lake. It will take ...

When Raine finds a hidden message in some old yearbooks that can't be ignored, she finds herself racing to solve a deadly puzzle before everyone at her school dies.

Gray Lexly, son of a candlemaker, wants to escape his life of old-world technologies and study at the prestigious Astra Academy, a school for arcanists—those who can wield magic. But Gray has a major problem. Every night, as he sleeps, he's visited by monsters. When they injure Gray in his dreams, he wakes with the same wounds in real life . . . On the night Gray might finally die in his nightmares, he is saved by the kind and mysterious Professor Helmith, a powerful arcanist. She offers to protect Gray and invites him to attend Astra Academy.

Winner of the CLC Book Excellence Award! When forbidden magic meets forbidden love, their hearts cast the deadliest spell of all. At the mystical Westbrook Academy, ancient magic runs deep beneath the ivy-covered walls, and Eve has more to hide than most. As the last heir of a powerful magical bloodline, she must conceal her true identity while hunting for an artifact that could change everything about how magic works. Her carefully laid plans never accounted for Nate Ashford, the devastatingly handsome Triad member tasked with exposing her secrets. He's supposed to be her enemy, yet his ...

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to finishing school. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners - and the family can only hope that company never sees her atrocious curtsy. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped.

In Sienna and the Bushido School for Princes and Princesses , Sienna, a very shy girl, lives with her father, two younger brothers and elder sister. Their mother, has mysteriously disappeared in their old country of Viton, which is wracked in civil war. Two days before her eleventh birthday, she finds herself daydreaming in math class and something fantastical happens! She is transported back to her old home to fulfill her destiny. She meets a mysterious man named Ali Sharif in a cemetery. Ali Sharif tells Sienna that she is special: Her birth was fore-told by the ancient seers. Also, when ...

In "Border Wars," the ninth thrilling installment of the "Crystals of Memory" series, young Anders Brolly, a magical prodigy on the brink of his fifteenth birthday, embarks on a perilous journey that will test his powers and resolve. Accompanied by the esteemed Great One of Barquea, Depak Sona, his apprentices, and the Heir to Barquea, Prince Naveed, Anders must venture to the borders of three lands where mysterious attacks by the Natech threaten the peace and safety of innocent people. As they travel through treacherous territories, they encounter a host of incredible beings, including ...

They said she was special. That she had a bright future. It wasn't a lie, but they didn't say that was necessarily a good thing. Clara Cassidy was a C student just trying to get by in life. Nothing had worked out as she planned and now she spent her days without purpose or attachments. All of that changed suddenly when an elderly woman knocked on her door. 'Magic is real,' the woman insisted and offered her a spot at Crossedlake University, a school for rising stars in the casting world. Clara didn't buy it. Not until she accidentally touched the woman's staff and her world exploded into a ...

When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest—not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.) If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to save: she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away.

Angels are real – and it turns out that I’m one of them. Things are getting pretty hectic at the Academy! Not only am I in a relationship with two gorgeous angels, but the third trial is only a few weeks away. With the mystery of my father’s identity seeming further out of my reach than ever, I’m already a bit on edge. And then there’s Zane. I thought I’d managed to win over everyone at the academy, so why is he still giving me grief? With sparkling green eyes and curly hair, he’s any woman’s dream boy. But he keeps blowing hot and cold, and I have no idea where I stand with...

Time is running out. Everything was going fine in Elise's life. Still a family outcast? Check. Surviving her summer job? Double check. Leaving for her dream school in the fall? Triple check. Weird heirloom changing color the night of her birthday forcing her to hunt down the one guy who's supposed to be her one true love and finding two who fit the bill? Yeah, so not part of the plan. Or any plan for that matter! Suddenly Elise is forced to balance work, school, family, internships and finding her Prince Charming! How's a girl supposed to cope, especially with the clock ticking towards her ...

Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable - even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love. That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things that doesn't change on prom night. When accidental magic goes sideways and a boy winds up dead, Alexis and her friends come together to try to right a terrible wrong.

Alison, the Drow princess, can’t even make it back to the School of Necessary Magic for her junior year without tripping across trouble hunting for her. Underground bullet trains, battles with dark magic, growing dragons, Louper tournaments, school dances, and job fairs. Growing up magical can be tough on a social life. Thank goodness she’s got her friends beside her.

Magic can solve all your problems. At least, that’s what Ruby would have said a year ago, before she learned she was a witch. Now, all magic does is create more problems. There’s a giant tear in the fabric between the non-magical world Ruby lives in and the magical one her boyfriend is from. Every time Ruby uses her powers, the tear grows larger. The only way to stop the magical world from swallowing up Ruby’s home is to journey into the unknown forests of the other realm that contain frightening creatures such as acid frogs, poison moths, and banshees that terrify you at night. And ...

Drow Princess Alison Brownstone begins her senior year ready to finally graduate and start her new life, fully trained and ready to kick ass. But still reeling from the attack last semester and the absence of her best friend, Alison is desperate for some kind of distraction to make the days pass quicker. And trouble in paradise with boyfriend Tanner makes it even more vital. When books start disappearing, she can’t resist digging deeper. But going down the rabbit hole leads to truths far more dangerous than petty theft.

Most teenagers have to deal with grades, school dances, and curfews. At the School of Necessary Magic, Alison and her crew have school elections, a musical to put on, a tournament in Louper to win while learning how to use their growing magical powers - and a sudden outbreak of werewolves. All before third period and a class on potions.

The stakes have never been higher than in the final installment of Magisterium from the best-selling powerhouse authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.

Ruby has a problem… …and it’s more than her pet dragon and hunky boyfriend can help her solve. Six months ago, she discovered she was a witch. Great huh? But with magic comes trouble, especially living in a (mostly) unmagical world. Ruby’s magic makes her a homing beacon for all magical creatures. They come to her—sometimes in the middle of her college lectures—asking for help to be returned home. Most of these creatures mean no harm, but when a witch with more magical skill than Ruby hunts her down, trying to rid magic from this realm, Ruby turns to her friends for help. ...

Clara Cassidy and Samael returned to Crossedlake University after a brief respite from the chaos at the end of last semester; they found that things had changed. The school was on lock-down, Corbin was missing, and they were under suspicion. Their worst fears slowly came true as the arcane investigators patrolling the school slowly unraveled what happened last semester and zeroed in on Clara. One of the detectives, known to be one of the best that ever existed, quickly pieced things together and targeted their group. She interrogated them intensely as she tried to pick apart the origin of ...

Angels are real – and it turns out that I’m one of them. I’ve only been at Angel Academy for a few months, and things are already crazy! After the first trial, Vance and I really hit it off. Now that things are official between us, I feel a lot more confident at the Academy. He’s supportive and sweet, and oh so sexy. What more can a girl ask for? Well… maybe there is something else I can ask for. I want Dylan to get off my case! With the second trial upon us, the last thing I need is his attitude problem. He’s aggressive and loud and the opposite of Vance in every way. Sure, ...